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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Installing proprietary driver actually a risky act. But it's worth trying for you who are brave enough to face a broken Xscreen for more 3D support. Don't worry you're not alone, I also face it a lot. Ready? Just remember, the risk is all yours :)

3. into the tty screen

enter tty1 by clicking Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or any other tty from tty1 to tty6)
login and enter su

# sudo su

it's better to turn off your desktop manager, mdm in my case. no more GUI this time

# /sbin/service mdm stop

install the appropriate linux header

# aptitude install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,')

install the recomended package by nvidia-detect
for newer version

# aptitude -t wheezy-backports -r install nvidia-driver

for older (stable) version

# aptitude -r install nvidia-driver

* the nvidia-kernel-dkms package will be installed as well, if it isn't you can install it after this

you may install nvidia-setting and nvidia-xconfig as well

# aptitude install nvidia-setting nvidia-xconfig

after all this installation thing done you can run nvidia-xconfig. this will create a new X11 configuration file.

# nvidia-xconfig

4. brace your self. face the reality >:)

okay, take a deep breath and reboot your LMDE

# reboot

wait for all the booting process...
looking at the linux mint logo which is not as crisp as usual you maybe say
Oh, No!
okay, wait for a while...
if the NVIDIA logo comes up next then you have a successful installation. Congratulation!

5. Oops...

when it didn't go well you can remove nvidia driver package and also remove the xorg.conf created by nvidia. take a look at reference [2] or [3]